Rock 'n' roll music has been thriving in New York City for over 60 years, and it should be given its due as an art. But how does rock ‘n’ roll music exist in NYC in 20th century? Have its golden years passed? When thinking of rock ‘n’ roll as a legitimate art form, it can be a representative of world culture, and more, it can be a movement related to youth and carnival, which contains an ideology competing for the world intellectual stage.
So we trace the history of rock ‘n’ roll in NYC and transform it into information that can be presented visually. The site faces the water and Manhattan, where open space can provide people with an immersion experience from outdoors to indoors., and it also has a strong cultural connection with rock ‘n’ roll. Thus, we input the information of the city into a script and then get a pattern, which can be used to generate the top view of buildings. Repeating to project the pattern on the building, we can get facade design, landscape design, and interior design, and this process can be regarded as parametrization design.
Carnival Theater for Rock 'N' Roll Music
Team Work
Collaboraters: Xinran Cheng, Yu Han
Completed in Fall 2022
Site Location: 1 Eagle St, Brooklyn, New York City, US
Fanatical New World
Rock 'N' Roll Music History in NYC
Rock & roll may not have been born in New York, but this is one of the places it grew up and blew up and presented itself to the world. From the churches and street corners of Harlem and the Bronx to the underground clubs of the East Village, New York City has been a musical Mecca for generations.
The effect of music on moods, the nature of rock ‘n’ roll music, and the albums of major characters are connected by extracting color, and those of the same color are connected together. Thus, we got some representative colors, such as black, olive green, rose, blue, ect.
Color for Rock 'N' Roll Music
Pattern Derivation
Grasshopper Script
Pattern Processing
Processed Pattern & Color
Massing Development
2D-3D Analysis
This rock ‘n’ roll theater is a fanatical new world for people who love rock culture, people gathering here can be extracted at microfilm of the whole picture: hip culture, art rock, punk music, music pioneers, and heavy metals. Rock performance here is a self-contained movement, which adherents choose to join.
The middle building serving as theater is the main place where people perform rock ‘n’ music and hold a carnival. Interior design also use scripts to project the pattern on the building, and several planes are squeezed out as balconies. Such design enriches the vertical space and create more activity spaces.
Facing the water and Manhattan, the ervironment seems quiet, which contrasts with the carnival inside. The colorful metalshell is refected in the water, while water weves are reflected on the facade, providing an immersion enwironment. Whenexperiercing from outdoors to indoors, people can feel the strong rock and rell atmosphere.